Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making the society ethnically homogeneous. Along with direct removal such
1893 painting by George Craig, depicting the deportation of the Acadians from Grand-Pré in 1755
Refugees at Taurus Pass during the Armenian genocide. The Young Turk triumvirate aimed to reduce the number of Armenians to below 5–10% of the population in any part of the Ottoman Empire, which resulted in the elimination of a million Armenians.
Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia following the end of World War II
Since 1947, in an event called the Nakba, at least 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes or forced to flee from what is now Israel.
Genocide is the partial or total destruction of a human group, committed intentionally. The popular view conceives of genocide as the large-scale killing of individuals, but in scholarly and legal fie
Ethnic cleansing
…and others excluding coercive assimilation or mass killings as a means of depopulating an area of a particular group, or calling it a euphemism for genocide or cultural genocide. Although scholars do not agree on which events constitute ethnic cleansing, many instances have occurred throughout history. The…
The Holocaust heavily influences the popular understanding of genocide, as mass killing of innocent people based on their ethnic identity.
The Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia was described as such in 1945 by Raphael Lemkin and at the Nuremberg trials, and largely matches the definition of the 1948 Genocide Convention.
The expulsion of Germans was one of the instances of state violence that was deliberately written out of the legal definition of genocide.
Rohingya genocide case at the International Court of Justice